Despite the tumultuous season our nation is in, I am greatly encouraged by the movement of the Holy Spirit in our capital city. This is a time for the believers all across our land to pray like never before that God’s plan and purpose for our nation will be fulfilled. Many things hang in the balance and I believe the tipping point for good to come to our nation is the strategic prayer of the saints continually bombarding the heavenlies over our nation and specifically Washington D.C.

The role of the National Prayer Center is needed now more than ever. Our nation is on the precipice of change and many of the changes are not good. The National Prayer Center is in a unique position to bring the realities of God and the power of prayer directly to the corridors of power in our nation by personally ministering to our elected leaders. For example, this past week as we were in a very important hearing with Christian Congressmen who were standing up on a critical righteous issue our team was in the room supporting and encouraging them as they battled. At the end of the hearing the lead congressman immediately came over hugged me and expressed his deep appreciation for our prayers and our standing with them in this critical issue. We are also joining with other Christian groups coordinating a concerted prayer effort among believers and churches nationally. The hour is at hand, the task is monumental, the needs in our nation are great but as the Body of Christ draws together to blanket Washington D.C. with fervent intercession and strategic prayer we know that there will be a turning of our nation and it’s people back to God and the biblical truths that it was founded upon.

I want to thank you personally for partnering with the efforts of the National Prayer Center both in prayer and financially in these historic times we live in. With your continued support we will together partner on the front lines of the battle to see the Kingdom of God come and His will being accomplished in our land.

You can send all contributions to P.O. Box 23768 Washington, D.C. 20036 or give it at church in the offering or send it to the church office. Thank you again for partnering with us both financially and in prayer.

It is a great joy to serve with all of you in helping to make America a more spiritually active nation. Thank you for your prayers and your continued interest in the NPC and all that we are doing. We simply represent you and consider it a great privilege to join with you in prayer for our nation. May you and you family be blessed in every way in 2009!

Partnering in Prayer for the Kingdom,

Pastor Ken Wilde

Capital Christian Center

National Prayer Center

Isaiah 53 (The Message)

¹ Who believes what we’ve heard and seen? Who would have thought God’s saving power would look like this?

^2-6The servant grew up before God—a scrawny seedling,
a scrubby plant in a parched field.
There was nothing attractive about him,
nothing to cause us to take a second look.
He was looked down on and passed over,
a man who suffered, who knew pain firsthand.
One look at him and people turned away.
We looked down on him, thought he was scum.
But the fact is, it was our pains he carried—
our disfigurements, all the things wrong with us.
We thought he brought it on himself,
that God was punishing him for his own failures.
But it was our sins that did that to him,
that ripped and tore and crushed him—our sins!
He took the punishment, and that made us whole.
Through his bruises we get healed.
We’re all like sheep who’ve wandered off and gotten lost.
We’ve all done our own thing, gone our own way.
And God has piled all our sins, everything we’ve done wrong,
on him, on him.

^7-9He was beaten, he was tortured,
but he didn’t say a word.
Like a lamb taken to be slaughtered
and like a sheep being sheared,
he took it all in silence.
Justice miscarried, and he was led off—
and did anyone really know what was happening?
He died without a thought for his own welfare,
beaten bloody for the sins of my people.
They buried him with the wicked,
threw him in a grave with a rich man,
Even though he’d never hurt a soul
or said one word that wasn’t true.

¹⁰Still, it’s what God had in mind all along,
to crush him with pain.
The plan was that he give himself as an offering for sin
so that he’d see life come from it—life, life, and more life.
And God’s plan will deeply prosper through him.

^11-12Out of that terrible travail of soul,
he’ll see that it’s worth it and be glad he did it.
Through what he experienced, my righteous one, my servant,
will make many “righteous ones,”
as he himself carries the burden of their sins.
Therefore I’ll reward him extravagantly—
the best of everything, the highest honors—
Because he looked death in the face and didn’t flinch,
because he embraced the company of the lowest.
He took on his own shoulders the sin of the many,
he took up the cause of all the black sheep.

^1-2 God claims Earth and everything in it, God claims World and all who live on it. He built it on Ocean foundations, laid it out on River girders.^3-4 Who can climb Mount God? Who can scale the holy north-face?  Only the clean-handed, only the pure-hearted; Men who won’t cheat, women who won’t seduce. ^5-6God is at their side; with God’s help they make it. This, Jacob, is what happens to God-seekers, God-questers. ⁷ Wake up, you sleepyhead city! Wake up, you sleepyhead people! King-Glory is ready to enter. ⁸ Who is this King-Glory? God, armed and battle-ready. ⁹ Wake up, you sleepyhead city!  Wake up, you sleepyhead people! King-Glory is ready to enter.  ¹⁰ Who is this King-Glory? God-of-the-Angel-Armies: he is King-Glory.  -Psalm 24 (The Message)

³⁸ “Blessings on the King who comes in the name of the Lord!
Peace in heaven, and glory in highest heaven!”^[a]

³⁹ But some of the Pharisees among the crowd said, “Teacher, rebuke your followers for saying things like that!”

⁴⁰ He replied, “If they kept quiet, the stones along the road would burst into cheers!” -Luke 19:38-40

⁹ Rejoice greatly, O Daughter of Zion!
Shout, Daughter of Jerusalem!
See, your king ^[a] comes to you,
righteous and having salvation,
gentle and riding on a donkey,
on a colt, the foal of a donkey.

¹⁰ I will take away the chariots from Ephraim
and the war-horses from Jerusalem,
and the battle bow will be broken.
He will proclaim peace to the nations.
His rule will extend from sea to sea
and from the River ^[b] to the ends of the earth. -Zechariah 9:9-10

PRAY:

• that the eyes of many nonbelievers would see God in our city.
• that the church would go after the ones who aren’t yet going after God.
  

² In the last days
the mountain of the LORD’s temple will be established
as chief among the mountains;
it will be raised above the hills,
and all nations will stream to it.

³ Many peoples will come and say,
“Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD,
to the house of the God of Jacob.
He will teach us his ways,
so that we may walk in his paths.”
The law will go out from Zion,
the word of the LORD from Jerusalem. -Isaiah 2:2-3

Let this be written for a future generation,
that a people not yet created may praise the LORD :

¹⁹ “The LORD looked down from his sanctuary on high,
from heaven he viewed the earth,

²⁰ to hear the groans of the prisoners
and release those condemned to death.”

²¹ So the name of the LORD will be declared in Zion
and his praise in Jerusalem

²² when the peoples and the kingdoms
assemble to worship the LORD. -Psalm 102:18-22

⁸ Come, see the glorious works of the Lord:
See how he brings destruction upon the world.
⁹ He causes wars to end throughout the earth.
He breaks the bow and snaps the spear;
he burns the shields with fire.

¹⁰ “Be still, and know that I am God!
I will be honored by every nation.
I will be honored throughout the world.”  -Psalm 46:8-10

PRAY:

• that Christians in our city would be known for their brokenness and humility.
• that the fear of the Lord would melt the hardened pride of people’s hearts.
• for Christ to be honored by the reconciliation of longstanding feuds in our city.
  

⁷ Also, seek the peace and prosperity of the city to which I have carried you into exile. Pray to the LORD for it, because if it prospers, you too will prosper.” -Jeremiah 29:7

²⁷“But I tell you who hear me: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, ²⁸bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you. -Luke 6:27-28

PRAY:

• that God’s heartbeat would be heard by those who disbelieve or mock Him.
• that Christians would be empowered to love their enemies.
• that God would strengthen and encourage the hearts of the persecuted around the world.
  

I will shake all the nations, and the treasures of all the nations will be brought to this Temple. I will fill this place with glory, says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies. ⁸ The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies. ⁹ The future glory of this Temple will be greater than its past glory, says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies. And in this place I will bring peace. I, the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, have spoken!” -Haggai 2:7-9

Nation will go to war against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in many parts of the world. ⁸ But all this is only the first of the birth pains, with more to come…¹⁴ And the Good News about the Kingdom will be preached throughout the whole world, so that all nations^[a] will hear it; and then the end will come. -Matthew 24:7-8, 14

PRAY:

• that these difficult times would become the church’s finest hour.
• for God to strengthen underground churches around the world with boldness.
• for people in our city to turn to Christ during perilous times.